WHITWELL: THE LATE BISHOP OF WAKEFIELD. 301 
1868 and 1869 he was Select Preacher at Oxford, and between 1869 
and 1879 Proctor in Convocation. During these years most, if not 
all, of his many hymns were written; also a long succession of 
sermons, expositions, and devotional works, his well-known ‘Com- 
mentary on the Four Gospels,’ and ‘ Pastor in Parochia.’ 
In 1879 came the call to the Suffragan Bishopric of London— 
nominally the bishopric of Bedford, practically that of the East-end 
of London. How amongst the east-enders he gradually won the 
titles of ‘our Bishop,’ ‘the ’bus Bishop,’ and ‘the good Bishop,’ is 
not a story for these pages. Norcan I tell of the influence exerted 
and work achieved. Archbishop Tait bestowed upon him the 
Lambeth degree of D.D. on his consecration to the Episcopate, and 
in 1886 the like degree was given honoris causd by Oxford University. 
In the year 1888, Dr. How became connected with Yorkshire by 
being appointed first Bishop of the newly-created See of Wakefield. 
In due course of seniority he was called to the House of Lords. 
The Bishop was soon invited to, and accepted, the Presidency of 
the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, and filled its chair for the year 
1890. An abstract cf his Presidential address appears in the Annual 
Report for that year. It was an extemporaneous one, and dealt 
wisely with the question of the attitude of faith towards science, 
and vice versa. Dr. How’s breadth of mind and scientific sympathies 
Were well shown in a fine tribute to his great fellow townsman, Charles 
Darwin, and in his distinct acceptance of the principle of evolution. 
‘He had no fears whatever from a patient, honest, candid, 
reverent study of Nature. God’s library did not consist of one 
Volume alone. . . . He thought that the higher Christian 
philosophy, now more and more recognising the immanence of the 
Creator in all creation, could accept the doctrine of evolution 
Without fear. . Surely the creating by successive stages of 
advance was not less wonderful, and gave one no less idea of the 
power and wisdom of the Creator, than the creating by an enormous 
number of separate and disconnected acts. If they traced a few 
links farther back of cause and effect, they must at last come to the 
point where the last link was held by an invisible Hand.’ 
The Bishop published two volumes of poems, one about 1859, the 
Other (which contained most of the pieces included in ae earlier 
One) in 1885. The first bore the title of ‘ Three All-Saints Summers, 
and other Teachings of Nature to a Busy Man’; the second simply 
that of ‘Poems.’ It is in these that we find the full expression of 
his delight in the glory of the mountains and the charm of the 
woods and flowers. I should like to quote some of them, such as 
‘Cader Idris’ or ‘The Alps,’ truly Wordsworthian in spirit; or 
1897. 
